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is for Judy, with love.
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Northumbria, A.D. 866867
A Pagan Childhood
The Danes were clever that day. They had made new walls inside
Springtime, the year 868, I was eleven years old and the Wind-Viper
The next day we made a pavilion in the valley between the town
King Edmund of East Anglia is now remembered as a saint, as
We gathered at Eoferwic where the pathetic King Egbert was
These days, whenever Englishmen talk of the battle of scs Hill,
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I settled in southern Mercia. I found another uncle, this one called
We spent the spring, summer, and autumn of the year 875
I suppose, if you are reading this, that you have learned your letters,
The Shield Wall
Alfreds army withdrew from Werham. Some West Saxons
Ealdorman Odda did not want to kill Danes. He wanted to stay
T he spelling of place-names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster, and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whatever spelling is cited in the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfreds reign, A . D . 871899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hglingaigg. Nor have I been consistent myself; I have preferred the modern England to Englaland and, instead of Norhymbralond, have used Northumbria to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.
bbanduna | Abingdon, Berkshire |
scs Hill | Ashdown, Berkshire |
Baum (pronounced Bathum) | Bath, Avon |
Basengas | Basing, Hampshire |
Beamfleot | Benfleet, Essex |
Beardastopol | Barnstable, Devon |
Bebbanburg | Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland |
Berewic | Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland |
Berrocscire | Berkshire |
Blaland | North Africa |
Cantucton | Cannington, Somerset |
Cetreht | Catterick, Yorkshire |
Cippanhamm | Chippenham, Wiltshire |
Cirrenceastre | Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
Cridianton | Crediton, Devon |
Cynuit | Cynuit Hillfort, near Cannington, Somerset |
Contwaraburg | Canterbury, Kent |
Cornwalum | Cornwall |
Dalriada | Western Scotland |
Deoraby | Derby, Derbyshire |
Defnascir | Devonshire |
Dic | Diss, Norfolk |
Dunholm | Durham, County Durham |
Eoferwic | York (also the Danish Jorvic, pronounced Yorvik) |
Exanceaster | Exeter, Devon |
Fromtun | Frampton-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire |
Gegnesburh | Gainsborough, Lincolnshire |
The Gewsc | The Wash |
Gleawecestre | Gloucester, Gloucestershire |
Grantaceaster | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
Gyruum Jarrow, | County Durham |
Hamanfunta | Havant, Hampshire |
Hamptonscir | Hampshire |
Hamtun | Southampton, Hampshire |
Haithabu | Hedeby, trading town in southern Denmark |
Heilincigae | Hayling Island, Hampshire |
Hreapandune | Repton, Derbyshire |
Kenet | River Kennet |
Ledecestre | Leicester |
Lindisfarena | Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland |
Lundene | London |
Mereton | Marten, Wiltshire |
Meslach | Matlock, Derbyshire |
Pedredan | River Parrett |
The Poole | Poole Harbour, Dorset |
Pictland | Eastern Scotland |
Readingum | Reading, Berkshire |
Sfern | River Severn |
Scireburnan | Sherborne, Dorset |
Snotengaham | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire |
Streonshall | Strensall, Yorkshire |
Sumorste | Somerset |
Suth Seaxa | Sussex (South Saxons) |
Synningthwait | Swinithwaite, Yorkshire |
Temes | River Thames |
Thornsta | Dorset |
Tine | River Tine |
Trente | River Trente |
Tuede | River Tweed |
Twyfyrde | Tiverton, Devon |
Uisc | River Exe |
Werham | Wareham, Dorset |
With | Isle of Wight |
Wiire | River Wear |
Wiltun | Wilton, Wiltshire |
Wiltunscir | Wiltshire |
Winburnan | Wimborne Minster, Dorset |
Wintanceaster | Winchester, Hampshire |
Northumbria, A . D . 866867
M y name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred. My fathers clerk, a priest called Beocca, spelt it Utred. I do not know if that was how my father would have written it, for he could neither read nor write, but I can do both and sometimes I take the old parchments from their wooden chest and I see the name spelled Uhtred or Utred or Ughtred or Ootred. I look at those parchments, which are deeds saying that Uhtred, son of Uhtred, is the lawful and sole owner of the lands that are carefully marked by stones and by dykes, by oaks and by ash, by marsh and by sea, and I dream of those lands, wave-beaten and wild beneath the wind-driven sky. I dream, and know that one day I will take back the land from those who stole it from me.
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